TOUCHDOWN! or should we say "hole in one"?

#OTD in 2004 NASA's Opportunity
Rover bounced on the surface of Mars
protected by its airbag landing system, coming to rest in a small
crater, later dubbed Eagle Crater
Why scientists were thrilled:

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mer-opportunity/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=NASAhistory&utm_campaign=NASASocial&linkId=724006589

MARS CURIOSITY ROVER

Sol 4429: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection
January 23, 2025

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity took 31 images in Gale Crater

The seam-corrected mosaic provides a 360-degree cylindrical projection panorama of the Martian surface centered at 232 degrees azimuth (measured clockwise from north).

Curiosity took the images on January 21, 2025, Sol 4429 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 1608, site number 112.

Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech

MARS PERSEVERANCE ROVER
SOL 1341

Perseverance continues to climb the slope of the rim of Jezero Crater in a low visibility Sol.

NASA's Perseverance rover acquired these images with its left Mastcam-Z camera.
Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located atop the rover's mast.

These images were acquired on November 27, 2024 (Sol 1341) at local mean solar time of 12:58:11.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU